UDP forms core panel on job quota policy

SHILLONG, June 30: The UDP has formed a core committee for fine-tuning its views and suggestions to be submitted to the panel on the reservation policy and roster system headed by Health Minister, Ampareen Lyngdoh.
UDP general secretary, Jemino Mawthoh said this after the party’s central executive committee meeting on Friday.
Party leaders and functionaries held at least 12 meetings with legal experts and scholars to solicit their views and suggestions for coming out with a non-discriminatory formula acceptable to the people of all the reserved categories in Meghalaya.
“We came up with eight observations that were presented before the CEC. Some more points were raised by the members of the CEC and finally, it was agreed to authorise the core committee of the party to fine-tune all the suggestions from party members across the state.  The observations would be fine-tuned in two-three days and submitted to an expert committee comprising leaders of all the political parties.
Mawthoh said submitting the views on the matter would be befitting for the UDP as it had incorporated the review of the reservation policy in its election manifesto.
He declined to share the details of the eight observations made by the UDP.
The UDP leader also said that the party deliberated extensively on all the documents since 1972 – from the principal resolution on the reservation policy and the office memorandums to the amendments. The party looked at the issue from the constitutional, legal, educational, and economic points of view, he added.
UDP working president and minister, Paul Lyngdoh clarified that the new office memorandum clearly states that it will supersede the one issued in 2022, which indicates its implementation prospectively.
“The new office memorandum issued in 2023 will be effective from the date it is issued,” he said.
‘We gave stability to KHADC, MDA’
Continuing to nurse a grievance against the NPP for removing it from power in the KHADC, the UDP claimed that the party had always worked towards providing stability whether in the district councils or even the previous MDA Government.
Mawthoh the functioning of the previous executive committee headed by the UDP ran smoothly for four years in the KHADC until the NPP decided to join hands with the Congress to topple the EC led by Titosstarwell Chyne.
Asked why it happened, Mawthoh said the NPP would be able to explain the appropriate reason.
“The Congress had termed the NPP as the ‘B team’ of the BJP,” Mawthoh recalled while adding that the Congress would be able to answer why it decided to work with the NPP.